The NXR Podcast - DAILY TRUTH - It Matters Where A Christian Lives

00:00:00.000 All right, listen, guys, I get it.

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00:00:49.780 urban inner city ministry that was all the rage and still is i don't know how but

00:00:58.680 apparently still is for the last 30 years 40 years right it's like if you want to be somebody

00:01:05.280 if you want to be a serious christian you need to be a pastor and not just a pastor you need

00:01:10.380 to be a church planter and not just a church planter if you go plant a church in a small

00:01:15.480 town in texas or tennessee we're not going to say it verbatim but i mean you're kind of 0.75

00:01:20.560 disappointing god right you're going to go minister to those those primitive neanderthal 0.74

00:01:28.020 blue collar flyover country hillbilly christians no no no you want to you want to do something 0.88

00:01:34.820 that pleases the lord go to manhattan right go to seattle and i i personally think

00:01:44.140 that in the last 30 years

00:01:46.300 that an immense amount of discipleship

00:01:50.260 has happened

00:01:50.900 in the ministry of Tim Keller.

00:01:56.320 The problem is I think

00:01:57.900 that the discipleship happened

00:01:59.360 the other way around.

00:02:01.040 I think that New York

00:02:02.480 has discipled Tim Keller really well.

00:02:07.120 I don't think that Tim Keller

00:02:08.760 has discipled New York.

00:02:11.080 I think he lost.

00:02:12.380 and so i don't think that it's particularly advantageous for us to continue to encourage

00:02:19.420 young men who are called to marry to have children to honor their father and mother in tangible ways

00:02:27.340 provide for their wives so that predominantly they could be keepers at home provide for their

00:02:31.520 children seek to fill a quiver with children not hand them to caesar in the public school system 0.72

00:02:37.360 but to raise them up in the fear and ammunition of the lord the paideia of the lord christian

00:02:42.180 curriculum and seek to leave an inheritance not only to their children but their children's

00:02:46.580 children and then say and you should do that while being a church planter in manhattan

00:02:51.040 what no no no just just leave outside the gate outside the city no just leave you don't have to

00:03:03.780 go and plant in manhattan you don't have to go to seattle you don't have to be a church planter

00:03:07.600 or a missionary, or a faithful Christian in San Francisco. God may call some to stay in those

00:03:13.120 contexts. But I believe currently, this isn't for all times and all places, but the sons of Issachar,

00:03:18.740 the skill that they had was they were able to know the times. We as Christians need to be able

00:03:24.280 to know the times. Not just ideologues that think that, well, doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. It's

00:03:31.580 always, we don't need to be ideologues, but we also don't need to be opportunists. So we don't

00:03:37.180 just stick our finger in the wind and see whatever the popular culture is saying at the time, and we

00:03:41.420 just echo that. We're not opportunists who are compromised, but we're also not foolish ideologues

00:03:47.460 who are suicidal, kamikaze fighters. No, no, no, no. We want to have not just a five-year plan, 0.97

00:03:58.160 but a 500-year plan. We want to build to last. If you want to be a farmer, don't start a crop

00:04:06.380 in the Sahara Desert.

00:04:08.600 Move.

00:04:10.640 And say, well, but I just want to be faithful.

00:04:13.340 And I just want to prove

00:04:15.320 that I'm the best farmer who ever was.

00:04:17.540 Okay, well, you could do that

00:04:18.500 by growing one potato

00:04:19.820 in the Sahara Desert.

00:04:22.200 Or you could be the best farmer there ever was

00:04:24.160 by growing the most potatoes

00:04:25.260 that have ever been grown in Idaho.

00:04:28.000 Why not opt for the latter? 0.79

00:04:30.340 Well, there are people in the Sahara

00:04:31.860 that need a potato.

00:04:33.440 Yeah, you know what?

00:04:34.060 Well, you can ship them

00:04:35.100 a million potatoes from Idaho instead of carving up and sharing one that you grew right there

00:04:40.980 at ground zero. We can't afford to be ideologues and suicidal. We also cannot afford to be

00:04:50.060 compromised opportunists who just go where the wind blows. But I believe in this current moment,

00:04:56.260 a very practical application of our text, the Hebrew Christians, ultimately the big idea that

00:05:01.200 I'm trying to get at with this text and I'll land the plane here. The big idea is this. If Christ is

00:05:06.580 really enough, then you don't need Judaism. If Christ is really enough and the temple that he's 0.99

00:05:15.120 building is a living and spiritual temple, then you don't need this geographic place. You don't

00:05:22.660 need this temple of stone. You don't need this city that crucified him, but you could actually

00:05:27.520 follow him he was taken outside of the city to be put to death and you can go and find him right out

00:05:32.560 there and you as christians you you can seek to live quiet lives as the scripture says elsewhere

00:05:39.140 to work with your hands you are allowed to do that brothers and sisters and any high-minded

00:05:45.880 sophisticated ivory tower seminary professor professional pastor on the internet who tells

00:05:51.440 you otherwise is lying. You are not being faithless or compromising or being displeasing to God by

00:06:00.000 saying, I want to raise children. I want to have grandchildren. I want to own a couple acres of

00:06:05.260 land, and I'm going to do it, not in Manhattan. You're allowed to do that, brother and sister.

00:06:09.740 You're allowed to do that. And that doesn't mean you quit. It doesn't mean you surrendered. It

00:06:13.580 doesn't mean you lost. It doesn't mean you sinned. I think it means you're wise. And to do the

00:06:19.580 alternative i think is foolish some can do it if you're a millionaire okay maybe you can do it

00:06:29.800 even then though i would make an argument theologically and practically some can do it 0.82

00:06:35.160 live in that bright blue liberal city and a blue state some can do it even then you have to make

00:06:42.700 a reasonable biblical argument that you should do it what do your taxes go to is there a state tax

00:06:50.100 all right let's let's read it do you see Planned Parenthood popping out

00:06:54.720 are you literally giving money to kill children okay let's just do some math here

00:07:01.180 can I live here can I live here those are questions that Christians should ask real 0.85

00:07:10.460 questions and i understand that well well i'm gonna have to go to the the moon all right well

00:07:16.880 let's keep rooting for elon then you know like i i understand no matter where you live you're gonna

00:07:20.860 have you're gonna be you're gonna be funding something that's vile but not all evils are equal

00:07:27.840 i don't like paying property taxes for schools that i'm not even going to use

00:07:32.440 especially schools in the austin area and surrounding that that you walk in and it's like

00:07:39.360 it's just like you're swimming in a rainbow. I don't like that. But there is a lesser and greater

00:07:46.600 of evils. And the Christian can't opt for supporting a public school that's progressive

00:07:52.300 and liberal versus supporting health care that sucks babies out of their mothers with a vacuum. 0.99

00:07:59.980 Those are not equal. There is a sliding scale. And we have a choice where we're going to raise

00:08:06.920 our kids, where we're going to start a business, where we're going to pay our taxes. We have a

00:08:12.340 choice what church we're going to be a part of. We have a choice what land we're going to buy and

00:08:17.100 leave as an inheritance to our grandkids. Right now, you have an opportunity to be thinking about

00:08:23.260 not the five-year plan, but the 500-year plan. Where can I best set up my great, great, great

00:08:30.140 grandchildren? Can I be frank with you for just a second right here at the end? Look, some of you

00:08:35.240 guys, you're financially supporting this ministry. And from the bottom of my heart, I say thank you.

00:08:40.960 I cannot thank you enough. However, some of you, you just, you can't afford it. In fact, some of

00:08:48.300 you, you shouldn't afford it. Let's be honest. I mean, we're living in Joe Biden's ridiculous

00:08:54.240 economy. Our nation and our totalitarian political elites lost their minds over the last three years 0.98

00:09:03.280 due to COVID. We have written checks that we simply cannot cash. It doesn't matter if people

00:09:10.200 change the definition of a recession. We are living in a recession right now regardless.

00:09:17.100 Some of you are struggling to afford a carton of eggs at the grocery store. You cannot support

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00:09:44.060 This is the way the system works.

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00:09:50.300 We need to be strategic.

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The NXR Podcast - March 17, 2023

DAILY TRUTH - It Matters Where A Christian Lives

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